Organization and Venue

The Sixth International conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2012) is dedicated to the use, design, and analysis
of algorithms and data structures, focusing on results that provide amusing, witty but nonetheless original and scientifically
profound contributions to the area. The previous FUNs were held in Elba Island, in Castiglioncello, Tuscany, Italy, and in Ischia Island, Italy, and special issues of
Theoretical Computer Science (FUN'98),
Discrete Applied Mathematics (FUN'01), and
Theory of Computing Systems (FUN'04,
FUN'07, and
FUN'10)
were dedicated to them.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

FUN with biological algorithms

FUN with cryptographic algorithms

FUN with game-theoretic algorithms

FUN with internet algorithms

FUN with opimization algorithms

FUN with robotics algorithms

FUN with string algorithms

FUN with combinatorial algorithms

FUN with distributed algorithms

FUN with geometrical algorithms

FUN with mobile algorithms

FUN with parallel algorithms

FUN with space-conscious algorithms

FUN with algorithm visualization

A full paper should be submitted by January 23, 2012 , 11:59 pm, Alofi, Niue, standard time, following the
submission link given at the
FUN 2012 web site. Manuscripts should not exceed 12 pages.
Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. The program committee will
determine appropriate time allocations for presentations (between 20 and 45 minutes).

Conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS
series.
A special issue of Theory of Computing Systems will be
dedicated to a selected set of papers.

"Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power, science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of
ambition, many others are to be found in the temple (of science) who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside. Our (Max) Planck is one of them, and that is why we love him." Albert Einstein. Principles of Research.